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News Update :December 2006

Palm Oil Exports to Europe

In 2006, APO has exported a record 110,000 tonnes of crude palm oil from Malaysia Ports. This included the first ever shipments of palm oil for European markets, including this vessel loading 10,000 tonnes of APO oil for delivery to Rotterdam and Hamburg.

News Update : November 2006

International Society of Oil Palm Breeders visit APO Research Centre

Over 60 oil palm breeders from around the world visited Malaysia in November 2006 for the ISOPB International Conference. The delegates visited the APO Oil Palm Research Centre, where the company’s hybrid progeny trials were discussed.
It was widely acknowledged that the breeding programme is producing some exceptionally promising material and that production methods in the APO seed production unit are to world-class standards.

News Update : February 2006

Directors visit APO Oil Palm Research Centre

The Strategic Planning Subcommittee of the Alpha Palm Oil Board visited the Company’s Oil Palm Research Centre to review research strategies and inspect the new Tissue Culture and seed production laboratories. Alpha Palm Oil now has 607 hectares of oil palm field trials, mainly focused on testing more than 400 new hybrid progeny from the company’s breeding programme.

News Update : November 2005

Expanding Seed Exports to India

There has been increasing overseas interest in oil palm seeds from the APO breeding programme, especially from countries where there is an annual dry season. Alpha Palm Oil planting material has been selected for increased tolerance of this seasonal drought stress which occurs regularly in Malaysia. Pictured above, oil palm growers inspect a nursery of APO seedlings in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh where the company is now a leading supplier of high yielding hybrid seeds.

News Update : 29 July 2005

APO receives Best Performance Award for Agro-Food Sector

At a glittering gala dinner for the 2005 Malaysia Business Leaders Awards, Alpha Palm Oil took away the top award in the Agro-Food Sector and the company’s Managing Director, Paul Vincent Leonardi, was one of eight nominees for Malaysia’s CEO of the Year.

In the first phase of judging a team from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (Chicago GSB) shortlisted companies based on four performance measures : Sales Growth, Operating Margin, Earnings before Interest (EBIT) Per Employee and Return on Capital Employed (ROCE)

The second phase of the judging involved face-to-face interviews with a team from Development Dimensions International (DDI), a global consulting company specialising in leadership development, DDI worked closely with Chicago GSB to evaluate the performance of all semi-finalists based on a set of key parameters.

Trophy and Certificates won by APO at the 2005 SET Awards

Staff gathered at the APO Clubhouse on 28th July to celebrate The Company's success at the 2005 Awards

News Update : 06 Feb 2004

Export APO Palm Oil enters South American market for seed exports

APO 's Staff packing APO seeds for first export to Colombia

Alpha Palm Oil announced that it has completed Malaysia's first export of oil palm seeds to growers in Colombia. The consignment of 150,000 hybrid seeds was air freighted in January, with further orders received for shipment in February and March.

The Company's Managing Director commented that obtaining export orders from South America is a breakthrough for APO. He noted that Colombia is South America's largest palm oil producing country and for APO to obtain seed orders in that competitive market is recognition that the Company's breeding programme is producing world class material.

Export APO imported its first selected breeding palms back in 1995 and since then has imported pedigree oil palms from breeding programmes around the world. APO had acquired this valuable material through exchange with the international Plantations Group during the 1980s and 1990s, he said.

Loading the first consignment of oil palm seeds from
Malaysia to Colombia, airfreighted
on 29th January 2004

The Company's head of Research and Development commented that since Alpha Palm Oil seed has been specially developed for the Company's plantations in Southern Malaysia, it has attracted interest from growers in Colombia and Brazil as well as Philippines, Cambodia and other countries which have a similar growing season to Southern Malaysia. He reported that in 2003 the Company sold 1.9 million germinated seeds and 450,000 seedlings and is the leading domestic supplier of seeds and seedlings to Malaysia's rapidly growing oil palm industry.

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